Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Does Religion Cause Terrorism?
- 2 Religion, Violence, Nonsense, and Power
- 3 Discounting Religion in the Explanation of Homegrown Terrorism
- 4 Religion, Radicalization and the Causes of Terrorism
- 5 The Role of the Devoted Actor in War, Revolution, and Terrorism
- 6 Girard on Apocalypse and Terrorism
- 7 Rational Choice and Religious Terrorism
- 8 Terror as Sacrificial Ritual?
- 9 Imitations of Terror
- 10 The LTTE
- 11 The Role of Religion in al-Qaeda’s Violence
- 12 Meanings of Savagery
- 13 Where’s Charlie?
- 14 Understanding the Threat of the Islamic State in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
- 15 Terror and the Screen
- 16 Understanding Falun Gong’s Martyrdom Strategy as Spiritual Terrorism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Cambridge Companions to Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2017
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Does Religion Cause Terrorism?
- 2 Religion, Violence, Nonsense, and Power
- 3 Discounting Religion in the Explanation of Homegrown Terrorism
- 4 Religion, Radicalization and the Causes of Terrorism
- 5 The Role of the Devoted Actor in War, Revolution, and Terrorism
- 6 Girard on Apocalypse and Terrorism
- 7 Rational Choice and Religious Terrorism
- 8 Terror as Sacrificial Ritual?
- 9 Imitations of Terror
- 10 The LTTE
- 11 The Role of Religion in al-Qaeda’s Violence
- 12 Meanings of Savagery
- 13 Where’s Charlie?
- 14 Understanding the Threat of the Islamic State in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan
- 15 Terror and the Screen
- 16 Understanding Falun Gong’s Martyrdom Strategy as Spiritual Terrorism
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017